Line-Talker DP-200 is the first digital onhold system in the world to use CompactFlash technology for audio storage. When connected to a PBX phone system, DP-200 plays a pre-recorded message loop to callers on hold, in order to keep them informed or entertained. It is an efficient and cost effective tool to turn dull and wasted hold time into pleasant and valuable commercial time for companies of all sizes and types.

Most digital onhold systems currently on the market uses either a cassette player or a CD player to download the audio into the system. This scheme has two obvious flaws. Firstly, the cassette/CD player has mechanical moving parts and is likely to cause problems sooner or later. Secondly, the audio must be re-digitized inside the onhold system before it can be saved into the memory. This re-digitization process often causes additional distortions and background noises, resulting in less than perfect sound quality.

Being a second generation onhold system, DP-200 is specifically designed to be without the flaws mentioned above. Sound files created digitally in a recording studio can be copied directly onto a tiny, little CompactFlash card without the need for any conversion or re-digitization. Therefore, the sound quality is preserved 100% as compared to the original. At the user site, the CompactFlash card is simply inserted into DP-200 and the unit is ready to operate. No downloading is needed since the card is the memory itself.

DP-200 is directly compatible with the industrial standard Windows .wav file format, which means that virtually any computer can be used to create and edit the sound files. A CompactFlash card reader is used to copy one or more sound files to the card, and a particular file can be selected by pressing a button on the unit. The CompactFlash cards are commonly used by many digital cameras. They come in many different capacities and are readily available at low cost.

Although designed mainly as a music-on-hold system, DP-200 can also be used in many other applications to replace traditional endless-loop cassette, tape, and CD players. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if your application requires modifications of the system to meet your specific requirements.

DP-200 User’s Guide